[mou-net] not present, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co.
The owl is not in the box this morning. George Skinner Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] White-winged Crossbills, birding software.
I had several at my home in Vadnais Heights this morning, feeding on pine cones. I had seen them last week as well. I would like to have some ideas on listing software. I have a yard list and world list I would like to organize. Any ideas? - Original Message - From: MOU-NET automatic digest systemmailto:lists...@lists.umn.edu To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDUmailto:MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 12:04 AM Subject: MOU-NET Digest - 28 Feb 2009 to 1 Mar 2009 (#2009-42) There are 8 messages totalling 435 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. present, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. 2. Great Horned Owl hoot fest, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. 3. visible now, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. 4. Photo Website Update 5. Winter 2008-2009 Season 6. is the net down? 7. Gray Partridges, Dakota Co 8. ICF Bugle article about birds and birding in China Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:54:23 -0600 From:George B Skinner george.skin...@gte.netmailto:george.skin...@gte.net Subject: present, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. Sunday, Mar. 1, 2009 at 10 am, I noted the owl is sleeping in the wood duck box visible from the street. Look through the pines at the southwest corner of the house to see the larger pole mounted box at the northwest corner of the house. Saturday it was sitting in the hole from noon until dark. At 7 pm the video camera showed it eating (more feathers in the box) and it left the box at 7:15 pm. If you are lucky you might see it sitting in the hole. George Skinner 15330 Lynn Terrace Minnetonka, MN 55345-5734 952-936-0811 Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:01:53 -0600 From:George B Skinner george.skin...@gte.netmailto:george.skin...@gte.net Subject: Great Horned Owl hoot fest, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. Last night at 7 PM at least 4 and possibly more Great Horned Owls were hooting and flying from tree to tree near the intersection of Highland Rd. and Lynn Terrace in Minnetonka. This was just down the hill from the intersection, towards Wing Lake. They were in the trees by the=20 road and to the west of Highland Rd. I also heard them calling off and on through the night. George Skinner Minnetonka Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:38:19 -0600 From:George B Skinner george.skin...@gte.netmailto:george.skin...@gte.net Subject: visible now, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. Sunday, Mar. 1, 2009 at 11 am, the owl is=20 at the hole in the wood duck box visible from the street. Look through the pines at the southwest corner of the house to see the larger pole mounted box at the northwest corner of the house. Saturday it was sitting in the hole from noon until dark. At 7 PM the video camera showed it eating (more feathers in the box) and it left the box at 7:15 P.M. If you are lucky you might see it sitting in the hole. George Skinner 15330 Lynn Terrace Minnetonka, MN 55345-5734 952-936-0811 Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:00:13 -0600 From:Linda Krueger lkrue...@umn.edumailto:lkrue...@umn.edu Subject: Photo Website Update February 1st Kevin and I headed to Monticello to photograph Trumpeter Swans. The weekend of February 6th we headed to Lock and Dam 18 in Burlington, Iowa to photograph Bald Eagles and American White Pelicans. Some of the photos we took from these two areas are now on our website along with photos of: Mallard, American Goldfinch, Canada Goose, and Hoary Redpoll. Enjoy! Linda and Kevin Krueger www.FLIGHTofNATURE.comhttp://www.flightofnature.com/ Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:05:33 -0600 From:Paul Budde pbu...@earthlink.netmailto:pbu...@earthlink.net Subject: Winter 2008-2009 Season The winter season (12/1 - 2/28) has ended.=A0 If you will be submitting = a seasonal report for inclusion in the winter summary to be published in = The Loon, please do so now.=A0 We strongly encourage submissions using the = MOU website (http://moumn.org/http://moumn.org/).
[mou-net] nesting ravens in Pine Co.
I also saw a raven with a beak full of nesting material Monday morning along the south bound lane of I-35. -- Joshua Bailly Research Coordinator for Prairie Biofuel/Wildlife Research Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve 2660 Fawn Lake Dr. N.E. Bethel, MN 55005 763-434-5131 Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] Koochiching County
Spent some time in Koochiching near Northome working on one of my houses and decided to take my 10 year old daughter birding in the afternoon. This is her list She compiled for the day. 1 Red Tailed Hawk 1 Rough Legged Hawk 5 Pine Grosbeaks 100s of Redpolls ( 1 Hoary) 45 Snow Bunting 60 Ravines 11 Crows 2 Magpies 21 Goldfinch 8 Purple Finch 1 Tree Sparrow numerous Black capped Chickadee 17 Blue Jays 1 Red Crossbill 2 Pileated 3 Downy 2 Hairy 11 Red Breasted Nuthatch 3 White Breasted Nuthatch 1 Horned Lark 3 Rock Dove 3 Ruffed Grouse ( no Spruce) Talking to the Locals they said Evening Grosbeaks are few and they haven't seen many Cedar or Bohemian Waxwings. Also, Pine Siskins have been in low numbers.. As an addition Morrison County has more Dark Eyed Junco's showing up. There still are a lot of Redpolls and Horned Larks. The Barred and Great Horned Owls are calling in more locations and the Cardinals are more active along with the Woodpeckers knocking. Found more areas with striped trees with recent flecking but didn't view any Black Backed Woodpeckers. Eagles and Hawks are starting to show up in more abundance. Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] birding softtware
Thank you for the birding list info. Birders Diary. Thayer, and e-bird were the top vote getters. - Original Message - From: MOU-NET automatic digest systemmailto:lists...@lists.umn.edu To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDUmailto:MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 12:04 AM Subject: MOU-NET Digest - 28 Feb 2009 to 1 Mar 2009 (#2009-42) There are 8 messages totalling 435 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. present, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. 2. Great Horned Owl hoot fest, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. 3. visible now, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. 4. Photo Website Update 5. Winter 2008-2009 Season 6. is the net down? 7. Gray Partridges, Dakota Co 8. ICF Bugle article about birds and birding in China Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:54:23 -0600 From:George B Skinner george.skin...@gte.netmailto:george.skin...@gte.net Subject: present, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. Sunday, Mar. 1, 2009 at 10 am, I noted the owl is sleeping in the wood duck box visible from the street. Look through the pines at the southwest corner of the house to see the larger pole mounted box at the northwest corner of the house. Saturday it was sitting in the hole from noon until dark. At 7 pm the video camera showed it eating (more feathers in the box) and it left the box at 7:15 pm. If you are lucky you might see it sitting in the hole. George Skinner 15330 Lynn Terrace Minnetonka, MN 55345-5734 952-936-0811 Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:01:53 -0600 From:George B Skinner george.skin...@gte.netmailto:george.skin...@gte.net Subject: Great Horned Owl hoot fest, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. Last night at 7 PM at least 4 and possibly more Great Horned Owls were hooting and flying from tree to tree near the intersection of Highland Rd. and Lynn Terrace in Minnetonka. This was just down the hill from the intersection, towards Wing Lake. They were in the trees by the=20 road and to the west of Highland Rd. I also heard them calling off and on through the night. George Skinner Minnetonka Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:38:19 -0600 From:George B Skinner george.skin...@gte.netmailto:george.skin...@gte.net Subject: visible now, E. Screech Owl, Minnetonka, Hennepin Co. Sunday, Mar. 1, 2009 at 11 am, the owl is=20 at the hole in the wood duck box visible from the street. Look through the pines at the southwest corner of the house to see the larger pole mounted box at the northwest corner of the house. Saturday it was sitting in the hole from noon until dark. At 7 PM the video camera showed it eating (more feathers in the box) and it left the box at 7:15 P.M. If you are lucky you might see it sitting in the hole. George Skinner 15330 Lynn Terrace Minnetonka, MN 55345-5734 952-936-0811 Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=3Dmou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:00:13 -0600 From:Linda Krueger lkrue...@umn.edumailto:lkrue...@umn.edu Subject: Photo Website Update February 1st Kevin and I headed to Monticello to photograph Trumpeter Swans. The weekend of February 6th we headed to Lock and Dam 18 in Burlington, Iowa to photograph Bald Eagles and American White Pelicans. Some of the photos we took from these two areas are now on our website along with photos of: Mallard, American Goldfinch, Canada Goose, and Hoary Redpoll. Enjoy! Linda and Kevin Krueger www.FLIGHTofNATURE.comhttp://www.flightofnature.com/ Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html -- Date:Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:05:33 -0600 From:Paul Budde pbu...@earthlink.netmailto:pbu...@earthlink.net Subject: Winter 2008-2009 Season The winter season (12/1 - 2/28) has ended.=A0 If you will be submitting = a seasonal report for inclusion in the winter summary to be published in = The Loon, please do so now.=A0 We strongly encourage submissions using the = MOU website (http://moumn.org/http://moumn.org/). Look under Reporting Birds, then On-line Seasonal Reporting. Any documentation of casual or accidental species can also be done on = line,
[mou-net] Unbelievable - Another Itasca County Three-toed Woodpecker!
I was working in the Chippewa National Forest today and turned up another Three-toed Woodpecker separate from the 2 I reported on Friday. This bird was a male and has probably been in his little tamarack swamp for a while as most of the trees had been worked over. To get to the spot, take Hwy 38 out of Grand Rapids to Wildernessa Rd, which is 1.5 miles north of CR 19. Take Wildernessa Rd east .5 miles. From there, there is a forest road going south but is gated and serves as a hiking/skiing trail. Walk 1000' feet, 2nd tamarack bog on your right. This is my 3rd Three-toed Woodpecker in Itasca in 4 days, but oddly, only my 5th ever. Additionally, 4 of those birds were either along CR 19 or within 1.5 miles of CR 19 and the last was only 4.5 miles from CR 19. So, I guess if you're hoping for a Three-toed Woodpecker in Itasca County, start with CR 19. Shawn Conrad http://users.2z.net/itasca_chippewa_birding/ _ Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009 Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
[mou-net] No Partridge
While birding in Dakota County, today, we saw Snow Buntings, and Horned Larks. Our quest was the Gray Partridge, but sadly we were shut out. We watched the area of 180th St. and Joan Ave around 2:15 pm and from 5-6:15 pm. It was a chilly, but beautiful day, and we walked at Carpenter Park. While there, we saw a pair of immature Bald Eagles soaring overhead. There would be no challenge, if you saw every bird you went after. Birding with Linda Whyte. Curt Rawn Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
